Motivational Quotes

Action

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

2.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

3.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

4.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

5.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

6.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

7.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

8.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

9.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

11.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

12.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

13.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

17.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

20.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

21.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

22.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

23.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

24.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

25.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

29.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

30.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

31.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

33.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

34.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

35.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

36.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

37.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

38.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

39.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.